Hey, it's a great song. We played it last night and everybody loved it. It's too old for most of them to have known what it is, but they liked it anyway.
Since the fundraiser is outside, we'll be using our PA system, and we decided that nobody will be able to understand the lyrics anyway, so we're gonna do it.
American Woman is a good suggestion though Rob. I know the song but the "kids" in the band do not. If I can get them to learn it by next weekend, we'll do it.
Ahem...if you are talking about "American Woman" by the Guess Who, you may want to research that a little bit. The Guess Who were a Canadian band that were strongly opposed to the Vietnam war in the 60's and 70's. American Woman was written to tell America to keep her influence away from Canada and the rest of the world for that matter.
Do not get me wrong here - I used to have every album released by the Guess Who and Burton Cummings was a helluva song writer as was Randy Bachman but that one song, while I liked the tune, I hated the Guess Who for writing it and for it becoming a big #1 hit in the U.S.